+1 for your suggestion

Stefan
> On May 6, 2016, at 4:40 PM, lejeczek <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> in my mind, Dell's repo should itself be an rpm package - 
> like every other civilized group of developers do - and not 
> some script that mangles it all in.
> 
> Put it into a rpm, this way yum/dnf/anytool will be able to 
> update all necessary repo changes - dnf update will update 
> repo configs - simple.
> 
> regards
> L.
> On 06/05/16 13:58, [email protected] wrote:
>> 
>> *Dell - Internal Use - Confidential *
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> The deprecated DLR used ‘yum-dellsysid’ package to 
>> retrieve Dell System ID. In DSU, it is replaced by 
>> inventory collector and hence ‘yum-dellsysid’ is not being 
>> used.
>> 
>> When DLR installed ‘yum-dellsysid’ package, it also 
>> installed following packages as dependency:
>> 
>> smbios-utils-python >= 2.2.0
>> 
>> python-smbios = 2.2.27-4.4.1.el6
>> 
>> libsmbios = 0:2.2.27-4.4.1.el6
>> 
>> Here ‘python-smbios’ requires libsmbios (= 
>> 0:2.2.27-4.4.1.el6).
>> 
>> When OMSA update is tried using DSU, the libsmbios rpm is 
>> also queued for update along with other OMSA packages. 
>> This breaks the dependency with the installed 
>> ‘python-smbios’ rpm, causing the update process to fail.
>> 
>> The OMSA update with DSU worked with the following steps:
>> 
>>            1. Configure DSU repository and disable 
>> /etc/yum.repos.d/dell-omsa-repository.repo (set enable=0)
>> 
>>            2. yum remove python-smbios ( This will remove 
>> python-smbios, smbios-utils-python and yum-dellsysid 
>> installed from @dell-omsa-indep repository)
>> 
>>            3. yum update  (will update to OMSA 8.3)
>> 
>> This is required only when doing the update for the first 
>> time, after moving from DLR to DSU. Once done, newer 
>> updates will be successful from version n to  n+1 DSU 
>> repositories.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Soorej
>> 
>> 
>> 
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